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got
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do you like going to this school not
that much what's your name my name is ke
in HEI I'm in 8ighth grade I'm here
because I was fighting I here a
teacher Mr Johnson how do you think I'm
doing to your class you doing well he's
doing well he's doing well are you close
to getting out of here
yes now his former life he was a Vice
Lord and I'm going to let him tell you
about that let's give a round of
applause for Coach
Brown my nickname was shot done you
wouldn't even believe the things I done
been
through I've been
shot
kidnapped all my life I want to be a
gang Chief once I got to the top my
friend started dying around me you could
prevent yourself from going through all
of that right now you can change your
mind right now it's up to y'all y'all
are our
future introduce yourself to him this is
D what's up I'm Derek show them your
head it say real and then they got
72 to disguise it so why they put Vice
Lord in your head the Vice Lord where I
be at just say you catch some cats out
there drunk smoking drinking and see you
see that in your head make easy target
for
yourself
telling you man when I was 13 I I swear
to God I had this same haircut so it's
like automatically man when I look at
you I'm just looking at myself
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again the risk of having Vice Lord in
your head don't do nothing but tag you
and two letters can do a lot to you
two letters can hurt you v
l it's cold out
yeah I can tell you didn't like it right
you did not like that
haircut but you understand why though
why we why we did that
right H mhm this the Corin I almost died
for I got a story to tell tell you about
every corner over here and they all had
something to do with somebody getting
hurt so how old was you when you first
went out on the streets like eight 8
years old so how you get into that just
always selling right after school mhm I
was making like 500 400 a day my mama
when my mom was sick she was in the
hospital what you do with the money just
spend like food
clothes you know your mother she really
care about about you and you out here on
these streets you you letting her down
and also you hurting her
hard
side you want me to rinse it
out
this is peridium it's for the bladder um
and then I
take um another medicine it's what the
lopus I know you got a phone call from
school about keante haircut and what we
seen this the look in kante's head and
it looked like a gang sign so we called
Derek up there and Derek said yes he
come confirmed it cuz Derek us to be a
part of that game he needs some kind of
support
that I I don't even
know that I don't think I can give to
him like I tell him to do something oh I
knock you out that chair he actually
will hit you while you in your
wheelchair he don't have respect for me
as his mother he ever got busted with
drugs that you know he just been lucky
that's just
it
that's F bro you heard the man what he
said bro what if he not down there he he
work inide
St I'm not smoking it with you see now
if we do get her we should smoke with
her
cold the whole police
station knows me cuz I done call and
make um that x amount of Miss Anderson
reports I can go in the bathroom and
come out and he disappeared just walks
right out the door at night do it do it
affect your other child he pulled a
knife on him he told him he was going to
kill him so he's planting fear in his
brother he said he was going to kill
me make me feel sad and I was
scared Derek uh Brown who used to be a
former gang Chief and been mentoring
kids using a boxing program called
boxing out next
you don't have no problem with Keon
being the program do you not at all
right to duck
right you too sloppy do it
again give him your gloves put his GL
put gloves on you putting on gloves got
to make sure your pants is up too that's
the first thing you can't fight with no
pants down you
behind this your jab left hand go and he
got some power on
them there you go
is you you
right-handed you let me
see
this boy got some power on him I
like you boy give me that jab
again now all you got to do is show them
how to generate it the right way you
hurt somebody man jab jab jab
four put your hands up you already right
one two one two
four y'all hit like bricks man y'all the
hardest hitting kids they said y'all
fight a lot but why fight for free when
you can get paid for it
right so y'all going to come to the
practice y'all going to practice with us
I believe I was put here to help y'all
that's why I'm at money fure that's why
you see me coming through there
talking I don't want to see y'all ended
up like the way I came up I was a vice
Lord at the age of 13 your age I was in
a juvenile detention center that was
just the beginning go go out there on
them streets ask somebody who shotgun
is everybody know me everybody out here
know me I know your daddy too your daddy
was a good dude but guess what else your
daddy likeed to do he liked to shoot
them guns all us got them same
stories what's your uncle name y what's
your other Uncle name Curtis what's your
other Uncle name who I know your whole
family but every last one of them boys
shotguns every last one of them but
where they at right now your daddy in
jail during time right now do something
positive a lot of people wait till it's
too late maybe this is God we showing
y'all he go something right here man
take advantage of
it their fathers out on the street
in jail and it's typical it's something
normal they got the holy city on the
side of
this I got to take a picture I'm
standing right here did you say the odds
are probably against these kids the odds
against them is two ways jail or dead
jail or dead that's being
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honest what did Dr Thomas take what did
Mr Robinson tell p now pay later you
don't let us train these kids you going
to spend much more money on them in
jail